Chocolate Milk
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Yay for Barrett!
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Nevermind.
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Any word on when this one is going to start?
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I'm hoping that they found and fixed the issue. Not holding out a lot of hope, though.
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I think it might be time for Prior to THROW in the TOWEL. Am I right?
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Going to Amsterdamn? no, but i'm going to Amsterdam What kind of rectum space are we talking here?
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Rain Delay.
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How convinent Yeah, what you didn't hear is that he has a stiff back because Lou hit him with his car yesterday.
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Maddux for Izturis. What a waste.
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As much as I truly hate the White Sox...
Chocolate Milk replied to JonnyRed's topic in General Baseball Talk
When I go up to bat, I throw balls at the pitcher. I play the wrong way. -
Today's lineup: Theriot, SS Floyd, LF Lee, 1B Ramirez, 3B Barrett, C Jones, RF DeRosa, 2B Pie, CF Lilly, P Maybe he was high last night when he said he was sticking with yesterday's lineup.
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Word from the game thread is Theriot is the SS today...
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Soriano hits a tater today.
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Cubs 9 Brewers 2
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You sir are my new favorite poster. Awesome! At least I got something to take away from the time I've wasted today when I should have been working on time sensitive important things! Edit: Also I'm just trying to fill my self appointed role of "Guy who keeps morale high."
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To clarify, I think I got pretty far off track, I think the Cubs are playing better than their record. I think that have been the victim of some short term varience. I see their record in one run games as an inidcator of that but admittedly that's not definitive proof. It's so early in the season, that winning a couple close games, where varience plays more of a role, turns the season from "cancel the 2007 season and tear down Wrigley" to "hanging in there." I think that if they continue to outscore their opponents, their record will get better. I don't think they are more likely to win the next close game as a result of their last close game but I also don't think it's likely they continue to have such a bad record in close games. Basically, I don't think the season is over.
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In what world is 50% good? When you add that to their other losses it makes for a bad team. When extremely bad teams do win, it tends to be by very little, ie 1-run games. But the problem with all this talk about 1-run games is that a poor record in 1-run games now does not mean you are likely to even that out later, as the luck brigade would like us to believe. Childish. So is hoping for luck. So is ignoring evidence that doesn't fit your preconceived notions of the Cubs. Also, it's not as much luck as it is varience.
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In what world is 50% good? When you add that to their other losses it makes for a bad team. When extremely bad teams do win, it tends to be by very little, ie 1-run games. But the problem with all this talk about 1-run games is that a poor record in 1-run games now does not mean you are likely to even that out later, as the luck brigade would like us to believe. Childish.
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In what world is 50% good? When you add that to their other losses it makes for a bad team. I was just debunking your anecdotal claim that "Good teams win close games and bad teams don't" because it's not even close to being true.
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I don't think you can use In closing, in an forum unless you have mod powers to lock the thread..amiryte? I guess I meant that more as a "closing note from me" as I've wasted enough time with this crap today.
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In closing, I think it's funny that most of us are furiously oposed to calling someone a "clutch hitter" because it has no predictive value from year to year. Yet we seem more than willing to beleive that the Cubs record in one run games is a flaw of the team even though it also fluxuaties so much year to year that it also has no predictive value. The fact of the matter is, the Cubs record in one run games is a fluke. Their ratio of runs scored to runs allowed indicates that their record in these games should be much better. Things will even out.
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CubinNY brought that example in. Still, I wouldn't argue with him about it being a bad play. Yes he was safe, but it's not really about the outcome anyway. It was a bad decision to attempt the steal. Even if he's safe, it was a bad decision. Process over outcome. Oh I understand that wasn't the best decision, but a player being called out when he was safe is a better example of bad luck than bad play, imo. The Cubs have no control over the officiating.
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Actually, some teams do have better W-L records in one run games than others. What is the correlation? Go figure.
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Why are we talking about Lee steal as an example of the Cubs bad play costing them games? Lee was safe. He was erroneously called out.